The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“I know this looks pathetic, but I’m wearing black elastic-waist pants just like my mother’s, a hot-pink fleece hat, mismatched socks, and… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
I am sitting here looking at the most amazing person I have ever seen, smart, funny, caring, and absolutely stunning! Yes, I… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you mingle with real people, only then your craft can improve. I spend most of my time outside the vanity van,… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
Michael Lewis, author of 'Moneyball,' got special access for a profile of Obama for 'Vanity Fair' - but Obama insisted on redlining… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Avoid associations that seek not to occupy the seat of victory. Those who make vanity seem like some form of victory. Those… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but… — Joseph Wiseman Copy Share Image
Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality. — Elizabeth Benedict Copy Share Image
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take… — Shirley Knight Copy Share Image
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance. — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st.… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about… — Samuel G. Blythe Copy Share Image
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
